Chicago-based creative collective, Pawn Works, has an ongoing project entitled “Art in Public Places” that has included many renowned artists, with Overunder and Labrona being the most recent to participate. Many of the previous works, including this mural, reference the history of Pilsen, the neighborhood where the murals have been painted. This particular piece displays an eclectic selection of imagery spanning a lengthy old wall.

Juxtapoz is back in the lovely Norwegian coastal city of Stavanger for the 2012 edition of Nuart. This year, yours truly (aka Editor Evan Pricco) will be doing a little talking about street art and internet with fellow art editors Tristan Manco and RJ Rushmore of Vandalog, and we get to introduce Ron English at the screening of his Popaganda film. Look forward to our dispatches from the North.

After a sleepless 15 hour flight, we anxiously arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa for the I ART JOBURG project presented by adidas Originals and curated by /ANDPEOPLE. This month long project has brought five international and local artists to create large-scale public murals in the bustling streets surrounding the Maboneng Precinct in Johannesburg’s central art district.

As we announced on the site this past week, former Juxtapoz cover artist SABER was going to take to the skies (much like he did in protest to the public art moratorium in LA last year) to protest Mitt Romney's claim to eliminate funding for The National Endowment for the Arts, PBS, and NPR if elected. And take to the skies SABER did, over NYC this weekend...

Jesus “Cimi” Alvarado, an artist representing Southern California was named as one of 10 finalists in the national Jose Cuervo Tradicional Mural Project 2012 and will compete for a $15,000 grant. The announcement was made last week at a ceremony in Los Angeles, which Juxtapoz attended...

Often painting in black and white with a keen eye for shading, Liqen’s newest mural in Cerdedo, Spain is the exact opposite, displaying an electrifying color palette. The artist painted a white boar poking its head out of the local fauna with some awkward faced insects hanging around.

After collaborating on a wall with Os Gemeos, Aryz stuck around in Lodz, Poland for the Fundacja Urban Forms Festival and painted another wall. Different from what we are accustomed to seeing, the Spanish artist painted a still life of flowers and a vase. Wonderful choice of color on this particular wall.

Here in the Juxtapoz office, we are getting into the political mood as we just completed our November 2012 Politics issue. (Curated by Ron English, get ready). Just as we were finishing, LA graffiti legend and proponent of public art, Saber, contacted us about a new campaign he was working on: #DefendTheArts. Saber is building a community for a skywriting campaign to illuminate Mitt Romney's declaration that he will eliminate funding for The National Endowment for the Arts, PBS, and NPR if elected.

Last year at this time, we were traversing the streets of Grottaglie, Italy, enjoying FAME Festival and the murals that have gone up in the town over the past years. An interview with Angelo Milano of FAME and Studiocromie later, we have to enjoy this year's FAME from a distance, but we love what we are seeing from March 2010 subscriber cover artist, Ericailcane on the side of an apartment building.